Senior Technology Resiliency and Recovery Engineer

Navy Federal Credit Union

Senior Engineer responsible for improving technology resiliency and recovery at Navy Federal. Collaborating with teams to enhance disaster recovery and operational resilience across multiple environments.

Posted 7/24/2026full-timeVienna • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $111,600 - $163,100 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in disaster recovery, operational resilience, and cyber recovery, with a strong focus on designing and implementing enterprise-level resiliency solutions. Proficient in developing recovery plans, validating recovery strategies, and communicating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

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Disaster RecoveryOperational ResilienceCloud EngineeringRecovery ValidationInfrastructure Automation

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Hard Skills

Disaster Recovery SolutionsResiliency EngineeringRecovery Plans DevelopmentRTOs and RPOs EstablishmentTesting MethodologiesDependency MappingHigh Availability PrinciplesFault-Tolerant ArchitectureRecovery OrchestrationInfrastructure Engineering

Soft Skills

Analytical SkillsProblem-SolvingRisk AssessmentTechnical LeadershipCommunication Skills

Tools & Technologies

AWSAzureGoogle CloudBackup TechnologiesReplication TechnologiesVirtualizationMiddlewareNetworkingDatabasesCompute and Storage Platforms

Industry Keywords

Enterprise Technology ResiliencyBusiness ContinuityService RestorationRecovery Assurance PracticesHybrid EnvironmentsRecovery ExercisesTabletop ExercisesFunctional TestingEnterprise FailoverContinuous Improvement

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityRTOS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support Navy Federal's Enterprise Technology Resiliency & Recovery (ETRR) strategy by designing, implementing, validating, and continuously improving the resiliency and recoverability of critical technology services.
Serve as a subject-matter expert in disaster recovery, operational resilience, cyber recovery, high availability, and service restoration across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Partner with architecture, infrastructure, cloud, application, cybersecurity, risk, audit, and business resiliency teams to establish resilient technology patterns, recovery standards, dependency-aware recovery strategies, and recovery assurance practices that enable critical business services to withstand, adapt to, and recover from disruption.
Contribute to Enterprise Resiliency Architecture, Recovery Engineering, Cyber Resilience, Recovery Validation, and Continuous Improvement by advancing recovery readiness, recovery automation, dependency mapping, testing methodologies, resiliency metrics, and executive reporting.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
7+ years of experience in disaster recovery, resiliency engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, cyber recovery, site reliability engineering, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise disaster recovery and resiliency solutions in complex technology environments.
Experience establishing and validating RTOs, RPOs, service recovery priorities, and recovery strategies for critical business services.
Strong understanding of operational resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, redundancy, and fault-tolerant architecture principles.
Experience developing recovery plans, recovery runbooks, testing strategies, and recovery validation methodologies.
Experience designing and facilitating recovery exercises, tabletop exercises, functional testing, and enterprise failover/failback events.
Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure platforms, including compute, storage, networking, databases, middleware, virtualization, and cloud technologies.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
Experience with backup, replication, recovery orchestration, cyber recovery, and infrastructure automation technologies.
Experience in analyzing complex applications and infrastructure dependencies across hybrid technology environments.
Ability to communicate technical resiliency concepts to both technical and executive audiences.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, risk assessment, and technical leadership skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Highly competitive pay
Generous benefits and perks